intervention
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“The market is testing Japanese authorities’ resolve, with spot back at 160 just five weeks after intervention to defend the currency around late April/early May,” the director of Asia macro strategy says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Even before the U.S. intervention this January ended oil shipments to Cuba, Venezuela’s economic distress drove Caracas to scale back its support.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Two overs later, the weather made a terminal intervention, with the day abandoned at 17:30.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The result can be heard in songs like the hard-driving “Is It Real?” in which Hollywell roars about mental illness and divine intervention, while Santos coats it all in steel honey.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
In other words, what the tetanus intervention needed in order to tip was not an avalanche of new or additional information.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing intervention
Freak the Mighty
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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